FreeBSD's Package Manager - Simply Briliant

When it comes to Package Management, FreeBSD has a sensible, robust and stable system, something that perhaps can't be said of other OS. In this video we'll have a look at the PKG command and how it can be used...
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Commands used in the video:
pkg update
pkg search
pkg install
pkg fetch
pkg clean
pkg delete
pkg lock
pkg unlock
pkg info
pkg audit
pjg upgrade
man pkg
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[Ciao_Bambino]

Thank you, i'm thinking everyday of installing and learning FreeBSD and left Windows OSs forever, and every video of yours that i look push me to this direction a bit more.
FreeBSD look's very nice and easy to use

[NOPerative]

Fantastic.
The modular tutorial on PKG is something nice.
Looks like a good tutorial format for a deep collection of FBSD how-to videos.
Good vid.

[JonathanSteadman]

Loved this video. :) Thanks RoboNuggie.

[aum]

I’ve loved the concept of NixOS and its package manager Nix: a real innovator in Linux land (but not limited to). Having a package manager that allows atomic installations, rollbacks, multiple versions of the same package, isolated dependencies, customizable environments where to select specific versions of a package… brings real value.
Is there something happening in this direction in *BSD?

It would also be interesting to hear it and how the ZFS can be leveraged to allow more or less granular rollbacks.

[dgtlsthlrd]

Thanks for doing these videos. I turn a lot of people onto FreeBSD with your channel.

[wildmanjeff]

great video Christopher !
gotta love the way BSD keeps things simple and it just works

[lua-nya]

Very informative. I used to think ports was the only option.

[G.B...]

I totally agree pkg is a brilliant packaging system (the opposite of cryptic as well), and man pkg is indeed the most important command. However, and for the sake of arguing only, I would like to add "man pkg | most" is better that "man pkg | less". 😆

[grahambailey]

I never thought that I'd live long enough to write this...but I've just enjoyed revision.

- Imagine a well-polished apple where normally that naughty kid would leave a pig's eye.

[iarla]

Pure stress @0:08 ! But seriously; Thanks for this. I’ve binged your entire channel over a week and am installing FreeBSD on a laptop that was exclusively Linux for years and have NomadBSD running on USB storage. The RPi is next.

I’d love to see a video on how to make a standard FreeBSD install identical to NomadBSD. I plan to always work from a FreeBSD base.

[skinwalker]

Half the package managers you listed for Linux on screen were wrappers for APT, Debian's package manager.

[mirror]

Missed opportunity covering 'clean' but not 'autoremove'. I feel like 'audio' details lack updates; its cool that it is there but shouldn't we be at the point to where public CVE records get matched tp the ports/pkg system for autoinclusion instead of having volunteers entering this stuff? Thanks again for a great video!

[donny]

is pkg able to fetch a previous package?
say the gnuls in current pkg database is v9.x, then is there a way to fetch a v8 or even old v7 version gnuls?

[Felix-vehs]

The ability to list all installed packages with 'pkg info' is something I really miss on other opearting systems :)

[martinworner]

Hello, thanks for the insightful videos. Wouldn't you even like to do one about network management and tools? For me, this is the biggest stumbling block in FreeBSD on the notebook, where I often have to switch WLANs. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, I don't know why. And the WLAN in FreeBSD is always much slower than in other operating systems such as Linux or MacOS.

[massakra]

Deleting a newer version of a package to install an older one later as a depedency is not an optimal solution imo.

[jms]

What does it say that current packages (with dependencies) have vulnerabilities from 2017 ?

[johnnymcaffrey]

xbps didn't mentioned in front of fact it's not worse than pkg if not better

[danterobinson]

pkg doesn't install ports itself you need to build them using another tool like poudriere which is ridiculous. On Gentoo portage will let me install a package and select which options I want for said package globally which I know poudriere can do but again this is a separate tool not the package manager itself. pkg should handle installing ports from source itself, otherwise nice video.

[steambsdfreeos]

Its good video. Also PIP work on freebsd